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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
I'm not sure how analogous Cleveland's red line would've been to a hypothetical Woodward subway in Detroit.
Cleveland's red line was mostly cobbled together from freight ROW's that are not well-integrated into their neighborhoods for the most part, with most of the 18 stations being of the dreaded park n' ride style and/or located in de-industrialized dead zones.
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It's all about how, exactly a system would have been laid out.
50 miles of heavy rail subway in Detroit divided between five avenues (so roughly 10 miles per avenue) all converging beneath Campus Martius would have been transformative. 50 miles of heavy rail, with maybe 5 miles of tunnel, then the rest in freeway medians and running alongside freight rail tracks, would have been mediocre-at-best (aka MARTA).
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